At least once a week, someone asks Dr. Skyler Johnson if Ivermectin can treat cancer.
The patient asked for antibiotic drugs, especially during the epidemic period. But in recent months, Dr. Johnson, a radiation tumor specialist at the Utah Huntsman Research Institute, has asked more and more questions about the drug.
Exaggerated and inaccurate opinions on Ivermectin have recently been strengthened online. Google searches for “Ivermectin” in January after Covid Wave in 2022. In that month, actor Mel Gibson appeared in the hit podcast “Joe Rogan Experience” and said that three friends with four -stage cancer have recovered after taking Ivermectin among other drugs. Researchers have 10 million views from YouTube. Flooding Incorrect information about the benefits of the taste of the drug.
At the same time, politicians in many states are promoting a bill that people can easily get Ever Mectin. The Governor of Arkanso signed a bill that people can buy without prescription last week. Members of Georgia, Texas, West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana and Kentucky said they plan to submit or submit similar bills.
A rich study shows that the drug does not treat covid. And there is no evidence of supporting people taking Ivermectin to treat cancer.
Krisy Lunz Trujillo, an assistant professor of political science at the University of South Carolina, said, “I know that people want to be healthy in their hands in many times.” But it can really have serious consequences.
Dr. Johnson is worried that he will give up traditional cancer treatment for drugs that have not been proven to work. He says that there is no strict study of patients showing human antibiotic drug therapy. Nevertheless, he saw people with early treatable tumors turned into drugs and returned to cancer spread to lymph nodes, bones and brains a few months later.
“This is a case of actually keeping people at night,” he said.
Ivermectin can do and cannot be done
Scientists do not argue that ivermectin is strongly effective about parasites. This drug was a breakthrough in the fight against tropical parasites. I won the 2015 Nobel Prize.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the Ivermectin purification to treat certain parasitic infections, and the institution approved the Igawa Cream, which Ibaine Mectin Lotion could help Rosa. The veterinarian also uses this drug to prevent and treat the parasites of animals.
This drug seems to have no advantage when treating Kobid. According to a large clinical trial, Ivermectin appeared. The patient did not help to restore infection faster than placebo. Also, it did not reduce the risk of hospitalization.
But scientists are conducting initial studies on Ivermectin and cancer.
Dr. Larry Norton, the medical officer of Eveloped H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, said, “This is definitely not cancer innovation in what we can say.” But it is actively investigated. It is actually all you can say at this point. “
Dr. Peter P. Lee, chairman of the Beckman Research Institute of Hope, in Du Artte, California, says a study of human cells says that the drug can kill a specific type of cancer by causing the immune system. But this drug can benefit breast cancer when used with existing cancer immunotherapy, he said. Researchers Studied The combination of ebermectin and irradiated cancer drugs in breast cancer patients.
According to an inaccurate social media post, Ivermectin can treat cancer because the tumor itself is parasitic, but Ivermectin’s promise to cancer has nothing to do with the effect of the antic corruption. Rather, drugs can controll the signals related to cancer growth.
However, doctors still need a greater random clinical trial to better understand whether Ibe Mectin can treat cancer. Dr. Johnson says that the drug seems to be effective in animals, which means that the result will be interpreted as a result. He added every year, “There are hundreds of drugs that appear to be promising in the preclinical environment.”
Risk of misuse
The doctor usually think Ivermectin is safe in the prescribed capacity to treat parasitic infections. However, many people expressed their alarms in the thought that the patient was taking drugs for unproven purposes.
Dr. David Boulware, a doctor at the University of Minnesota, said, “There is a danger if there is no profit.”
Dr. Johnson said he is concerned about taking Ivermectin with traditional treatment beyond his concern about setting effective cancer drugs that prefer Ivermectin. He said that drugs can affect people’s metabolizing other drugs, he said. IVERMECTIN can also interact with blood diluents.
In high doses, Ever Mectin is toxic and can cause central nervous system problems such as vision, confusion and seizures, especially for children, especially by Dr. Susanna Naggie, a child’s medical professor. I also warned the FDA High dosage It can lead to a coma or death.
Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, the head of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said doctors still don’t know the danger of taking Ir Mectin regularly or for a long time.
It is one of the reasons why he and other doctors are concerned about the prospect that drug therapy will be more widely used.
Dr. Naggie said, “You can find a place where people can go inside and take all the doses that they believe or work online.”
